Great post John. I like the add of AB. Plenty of opportunity to improve the multithreaded games of telephone through each silo. Having played in this zone of architecting annual strategy efforts a number of times, I'd suggest a bigger opportunity is to architect a series of stages that come before A. Where does the LT get their foundation for their annual strategy update? Done well is builds on the perspectives that can only be accessed on the front lines, and the pattern-matching insights that can only come from being *one* step removed from them (what Evan LaPointe calls "the middle brain" - note that it's not four or five steps removed like the exec team).
Great post John. I like the add of AB. Plenty of opportunity to improve the multithreaded games of telephone through each silo. Having played in this zone of architecting annual strategy efforts a number of times, I'd suggest a bigger opportunity is to architect a series of stages that come before A. Where does the LT get their foundation for their annual strategy update? Done well is builds on the perspectives that can only be accessed on the front lines, and the pattern-matching insights that can only come from being *one* step removed from them (what Evan LaPointe calls "the middle brain" - note that it's not four or five steps removed like the exec team).